
Contents
From the Editorial Board
Articles
Conference Proceedings “‘Folk Linguistics’: Language from the Speaker’s Perspective”
“Народная лингвистика” как объект исследования [Folk Linguistics as an Object of Research]
Evgeny Golovko
‘Folk Linguistics’ in Japan and Russia
Vladimir Alpatov
Compiling a Dictionary and the Emergence of a New Language
Vlada Baranova
A Dictionary Compiled by a Dialect Speaker: A Pragmatic Aspect
Elena Bondarenko
Philosophical Demotivators and Non-Professional Definitions: The Correlation Between Verbal and Visual Content
Natalia Bragina
Speech Errors as the Focus of Metalinguistic Reflection
Elena Gekkina
New Forms of ‘Naïve Linguistics’ in the Internet Age
Valery Efremov
Naïve Ideas of Word Meanings in Russian
Boris Iomdin
‘Folk Linguistics’ as an Instrument of Magic
Valeria Kolosova
“No One Speaks Worse Than Us” vs “We’re the Only Ones Who Speak Properly”: Dialect Speakers’ Changing Attitude Towards Their Speech
Anastasia Lopukhina
“You Really Don’t Sound Like Us”: The Effect of Proper Names’ Ethnicity on Listener Expectations
Alexei Prikhodkin
Pljuskvamperfekt(um) (Pluperfect) in Russian: a Linguistic Term in Non-Linguistic Contexts and Typological Data
Dmitry Sichinava
Speakers’ Attitudes to Language: Generators or Mirrors of Sociolinguistic Changes? (The French Example)
Hélène Favreau
Folk Etymology and Quantitative Collocations in Russian
Igor Sharonov
On Flags, Dragons and Jokes
Малые жанры — большому ученому [Small Genres — to a Great Scholar]
Alexandra Arkhipova, Nikita Petrov
These Capricious and Lazy Dragons: From Proverb to Myth
Sergey Neklyudov
The Russian Flag: Phonosemantic Memory Technique and Folklore Texts
Nikita Petrov
Political Humour of Liberty Island: What Cubans Say About Fidel Castro
Alexandra Arkhipova, Manolo Alejandrez
“These People Can’t Even Sort Potatoes Without Their Father”: Belarusian Political and Ethnic Jokes
Anastasiya Astapova
Materials from Expeditions
The Experience of Gathering Jokes in Cuba: A Fieldwork Trip in 2013
Dmitry Pantyukhin
Reviews
That Which We Call a Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet…: A Review of János Géczi, The Rose and its Symbols in Mediterranean Antiquity. Tubingen: Narr Verlag, 2011, 453 pp.
Valeria Kolosova
A Review of S. A. Shtyrkov, Predaniya ob inozemnom nashestvii: krestyanskiy narrativ i mifologiya landshafta (na materialakh Severo-Vostochnoy Novgorodchiny) [Historical Legends about Foreign Invasion: The Peasant Narrative and Mythology of Landscape (Based on Material from the North-East Novgorod Area)]. St Petersburg: Nauka, 2012, 228 pp.
Evgeny Platonov
A Review of Tracy McDonald, Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921–1930. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011, XVIII+422 pp.
Jonathan Waterlow
A Review of Brian Donahoe, Joachim Otto Habeck (eds.), Reconstructing the House of Culture. Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011, 336 pp.
Denis Maslov
A Review of V. B. Kolosova, Leksika i simvolika slavyanskoy narodnoy botaniki. Etnolingvisticheskiy aspekt [The Lexis and Symbolism of Slavonic Folk Botany. The Ethnolinguistic Aspect].Moscow: Indrik, 2009, 352 pp.
Alexandra Ippolitova
Conferences
Urban Festivals in Changing Times
Irina Sedakova
Religious Nationalism in Theory and Practice
Anna Smelova
In Memoriam
Calvert Watkins (13th March 1933 — 20th March 2013)
Yaroslav Vasilkov
Summaries and keywords
Antropologicheskij forum, no. 21